An up-close look at the Navy's USS Somerset

Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:48 PM

The Navy's USS Somerset holds a media day at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia to provide an up-close look at the Navy's newest amphibious warship, which is to be commissioned March 1. Somerset is the ninth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock and is named in honor of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pa. during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Somerset is the third of the three named in honor of those victims and first responders of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This hangs in one of the ship's mess halls.
02/27/2014
Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com